1 Esdras 1:42

1 Esdras 1:42 Context

³⁹Five and twenty years old was Joacim when he was made king in the land of Judea and Jerusalem; and he did evil before the Lord. ⁴⁰Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon. ⁴¹Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them in his own temple at Babylon. ⁴²But those things that are recorded of him, and of his uncleaness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings. ⁴³And Joacim his son reigned in his stead: he was made king being eighteen years old; ⁴⁴And reigned but three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did evil before the Lord. ⁴⁵So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought into Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord;

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